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by yingw787 2151 days ago
Fun fact, in Ancient Rome people used olive oil as soap, and scraped off the excess using a...metal thing. Sometimes they put perfumed olive oil into their bathtubs. This is for richer folk, regular people used crude soaps.

https://hubpages.com/education/The-Many-Uses-of-Olive-Oil-in...

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Strigil. that's what it was called.